{"id":1922758,"date":"2023-05-02T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-spokesman-matthew-miller-advised-chinese-crypto-exchange-under-federal-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:03:04","slug":"state-department-spokesman-matthew-miller-advised-chinese-crypto-exchange-under-federal-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-spokesman-matthew-miller-advised-chinese-crypto-exchange-under-federal-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller Advised Chinese Crypto Exchange Under Federal Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-department-spokesman-matthew-miller-advised-chinese-crypto-exchange-under-federal-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>New Biden Official Worth Up to $60 Million Advised Chinese Crypto Exchange Under Investigation<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>State Department spokesman Matthew Miller \/ YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, who recently joined the Biden administration, has been revealed to have advised a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange under investigation for fraud, money laundering, and enabling Islamic terrorist groups to use its platform. This news is particularly concerning given Miller&#8217;s previous work as a partner at crisis communications firm Vianovo, which counts BAM Trading Services, the San Francisco-based subsidiary of Chinese crypto giant Binance, among its clients.<\/p>\n<h3>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Sues Binance and Its Founder<\/h3>\n<p>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, in federal court in March for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-spokesman-matthew-miller-advised-chinese-crypto-exchange-under-federal-investigation\/\" title=\"State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller Advised Chinese Crypto Exchange Under Federal Investigation\">allegedly coaching wealthy clients<\/a> on how to evade regulations that bar Americans from trading cryptocurrency derivatives. The commission also alleged that Binance executives discussed turning a blind eye to transactions conducted by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group. Miller&#8217;s work for Binance&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-lawyers-tell-meena-harris-to-stop-using-aunt-kamala-to-build-brand-report\/\" title=\"White House Lawyers Tell Meena Harris To Stop Using Aunt Kamala To Build Brand: Report\">public relations firm<\/a> could raise eyebrows as he reenters the public sector.<\/p>\n<h3>Miller&#8217;s Lucrative Consulting Work<\/h3>\n<p>Consulting work was highly lucrative for Miller, who has between $30 million and $60 million in assets, including a $25 million to $50 million investment in a Vanguard investment fund, according to financial disclosures obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tx-gov-abbott-biden-does-not-care-about-border-crisis-have-never-heard-from-him-on-issue\/\" title=\"TX Gov. Abbott: Biden 'Does Not Care' About Border Crisis -- Have 'Never' Heard from Him on Issue\">past calendar year<\/a>, Miller received $85,000 in income from Vianovo and $786,435 from its affiliate, VNPG. NBCUniversal paid Miller $98,027 for his appearances on MSNBC, where Miller appeared frequently to trumpet the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<h3>Binance&#8217;s Links to China and Federal Investigations<\/h3>\n<p>Binance and Zhao have faced additional scrutiny for hiding extensive links to China. According to the Financial Times, Zhao repeatedly instructed Binance employees to lie about the company&#8217;s presence in China because of the heightened scrutiny the relationship would bring the company. Binance, the world&#8217;s largest crypto market, has hired a stable of attorneys and lobbyists to handle the federal investigations. Zhao and the company recently hired the white-shoe law firm Latham &#038; Watkins and lobbyists from Hogan Lovells, ICE Miller Strategies, and Fierce Government Relations to lobby Congress and federal agencies.<\/p>\n<h3>State Department Responds<\/h3>\n<p>A State Department spokesperson responded to say that &#8220;personnel across the administration follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report\/\" title=\"White House Already Having To Deal With \u2018Ethical Headache\u2019 Created By Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece: Report\">highest ethical standards<\/a>, including recusals when appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update May 2, 10:50 a.m.:<\/strong> This piece has been updated to include comment from the State Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Biden Official Worth Up to $60 Million Advised Chinese Crypto Exchange Under Investigation State Department spokesman Matthew Miller \/ YouTube State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, who recently joined the Biden administration, has been revealed to have advised a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange under investigation for fraud, money laundering, and enabling Islamic terrorist groups to use &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1922759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5730,4117,6987,4724,4063,3974,3976,7822,14964,6151],"class_list":["post-1922758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-advised","tag-chinese","tag-crypto","tag-department","tag-exchange","tag-federal","tag-investigation","tag-matthew","tag-miller","tag-spokesman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}